Alexandre Dalifard 5:30 a.m., March 30, 2024

The week of March 25 was full of news. Between Kate Middleton's cancer, France's public deficit, the school crisis and Easter, listeners of the show "Pascal Praud et vous", every day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Europe 1, have were many to react. Listen to the excerpts again. You can react at 01.80.20.39.21.

The announcement was experienced as an electric shock by all British people. After revealing that she had cancer, Kate Middleton made headlines in all the media. But the week of March 25 was notably marked by the figures for France's public deficit, published by INSEE, the school crisis and Easter, one of the most important religious holidays for Catholics. In the show

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, listeners as well as guests reacted to this rich news.

Monday: Cancers within the royal family: for Bertrand Deckers, “almost the entire monarchy is called into question”

Is the British monarchy under threat? A few months after Charles III, Princess Kate Middleton revealed that she had cancer. An announcement that saddened all British people and lovers of the royal family. Bertrand Deckers, specialist in the British monarchy, returned on Monday to the show

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on these health concerns which fuel many conversations across the Channel. “The English are sad and worried, undoubtedly, because almost the entire monarchy is being called into question,” he said on Europe 1.

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Tuesday: France's deficit: “We are a dunce within the euro zone”, points out Marc Fiorentino

On Tuesday, INSEE revealed the figures for France's public deficit. The latter reached 5.5% of GDP in 2023, at 154 billion euros, much more than the 4.8% deficit achieved in 2022. And for Marc Fiorentino, specialist in financial markets and guest on the show

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on Tuesday, France is last in class in Europe 1 and there are two reasons which explain the State's difficulties in reducing public spending. “Firstly a lack of political courage, and secondly, we are a dunce within the euro zone who has always been given a score of 10 (out of 10). However, if you are a dunce and we give you a grade 10, you are not working.”

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Wednesday: School: loss of authority, lack of staff, threats... “The most serious crisis under the Fifth Republic”, denounces the SNALC

The principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school in Paris, threatened with death after asking a student to remove her veil, left his position on Tuesday. The political class was outraged by this decision and, in

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, Maxime Reppert, vice-president of the national union of high schools, colleges, schools and higher education (SNALC), evokes a school more generally in crisis. “The school has changed, there is no longer any authority. There is a major crisis because there is a lack of teaching staff, and not only that. This crisis is probably the most serious known under the Fifth Republic,” he denounces on Europe 1.

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Thursday: October 7 massacres in Israel: “I preferred to die here rather than be taken as a hostage to Gaza,” says a survivor

On October 7, Hamas, a terrorist movement, launched a bloody attack in Israel, where at least 1,160 people lost their lives. Today, 130 civilians are still being held hostage in Gaza, almost six months after the attacks. Present in a music festival attacked by the terrorist movement, Laura Blajman-Kadar testified in the show

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, and confided to having feared being taken hostage. "We start seeing videos of hostages while we are hidden. This is the moment where I make a decision: I would rather die here than be taken to Gaza. Being a woman, I was much more afraid of "to be touched, undressed, to be raped, than to be killed", she confessed on the microphone of Europe 1.

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Friday: 7,135 adults baptized this year at Easter: how did faith come to them? Catherine Chevalier's explanations

During the Easter weekend, one of the most important religious holidays for Catholics, 7,135 adults and more than 5,000 adolescents will be baptized. For the occasion, Catherine Chevalier, director of the national service for catechesis and catechumenate of the Conference of Bishops of France, is the guest of

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. At the microphone of Europe 1, she explains how these adults turned to religion. According to her, “we come to faith in different ways.”

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